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Brewer's: Hedge Lane
(London) includes that whole line of streets (Dorset, Whitcomb, Prince's, and Wardour) stretching from Pall Mall East to Oxford Street. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Fetter Lane
is probably feuterer-lane. A feuterer is a keeper of dogs, and the lane has always been famous for dog-fanciers. Howel, with less probability, says it is Fewtor Lane, i.e. the lane of…Brewer's: Finch Lane
(London). So called from a family of consideration by the name of Finch or Finke. There was once a church in the lane called St. Benet Finke. There is an Irish saint named Finc, in Latin…Brewer's: Drury Lane
(London) takes its name from the habitation of the great Drury family. Sir William Drury, K.G., was a most able commander in the Irish wars. Drury House stood on the site of the present…Brewer's: Duck Lane
A row for old and second-hand books which stood formerly near Smithfield, but has given way to city improvements. It might be called the Holywell Street of Queen Anne's reign. Scotists and…Brewer's: Mincing Lane
(London). A corruption of Mynchen Lane; so called from the tenements held there by the mynchens or nuns of St. Helen's, in Bishopsgate Street. (Minicen, Anglo-Saxon for a nun; minchery, a…Brewer's: Lewkner's Lane
Now called “Charles Street,” Drury Lane, London, always noted for ladies of the pavement. The flymphs of chaste Diana's train, The same with those of Lewkner's Lane. Butler: Hudibras, part…Brewer's: Sermon Lane
(Doctors Commons, London). A corruption of Shere-moniers Lane (the lane of the money-shearers or clippers, whose office it was to cut and round the metal to be stamped into money). The…The Dimensions of the Bowling Lane
The Question: On your Standard Measurements in Sports page you left out the lane width of the bowling lane. Can you tell me what it is? The…Brewer's: Warwick Lane
(City). The site of a magnificent house belonging to the famed Beauchamps, Earls of Warwick. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Trending
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